When America First Met China: An Exotic History Of Tea, Drugs, And Money In The Age Of Sail

When America First Met China: An Exotic History Of Tea, Drugs, And Money In The Age Of SailBrilliantly illuminating one of the least understood areas of American history, best selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancient empire. It is a prescient fable for our time, one that surprisingly continues to shed light on our modern relationship with China. Indeed, the furious trade in furs,

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